Humboldt Journal

How many times, growing up, did your mother say to you, "Clean your plate. There are starving kids in Africa!"? Mine said it quite a bit. My grandma, too. Sadly, nowadays, starving children aren't as far away as Africa.

The body of a missing man was found near Bruno

There I was, 6:45 p.m. and within 15 minutes of me getting the chemical drift from a farmer spraying chemical on his field.

It is a dream come true for a young boy and his family. Former Humboldt resident, David Sweeney, was born with giant omphalocele ventricular septal defect.

The Humboldt Under-16 Hurricanes stormed through their opposition recently at the Saskatoon Eastside Grevers' tournament, coming away as Division III champions. The Eastside Grevers' tourney took place June 17-19.

The review is in, and it points to complex systemic and human factors as to why residents of a Humboldt care home were exposed to carbon monoxide late last year.

It's time for them to work together.

By 10 a.m., there were 30 bikes; 10 minutes later, there were 10 more. And by the time the bikes taking part in the Shake, Rattle and Roll Motorcycle Rally for Parkinson's Disease rolled out of St. Gregor on June 25, there were over 50 of them.

There was no escaped convict from the Prince Albert penitentiary in Humboldt. Nor was there a huge take-down of drug dealers. No, the plethora of police officers in the city last week was due to a blitz on traffic offences in the city of Humboldt.

They lost on the road but won huge at home. On June 22, the Marysburg Royals senior baseball team travelled to Saskatoon to take on the Saskatoon Blue Jays. The game started well as Marysburg jumped out to a 5-2 lead after two innings.